Classic Covers: Frank Frazetta’s Lancer/Ace Conans
Jan21

Classic Covers: Frank Frazetta’s Lancer/Ace Conans

Second only to Robert E. Howard in importance in the development of the perception of Conan, Frank Frazetta’s explosively elemental take on the Cimmerian achieved instant cultural cache and has become the defining image not only of Howard’s most famous creation, but of the barbaric hinterlands of fantasy fiction itself. Frazetta’s frenzied depictions of havoc and battle, his iron-muscled killers taut with violent...

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Classic Covers: Tanith Lee
Sep19

Classic Covers: Tanith Lee

Poetic and prolific UK author Tanith Lee (1947-2015) ranged from the sun-dappled lands of fantasy to the mist-shrouded shores of horror, and seemingly everywhere in between. Spooky, sensual, and superbly-crafted, Lee’s genre-stretching work featuring vampires, doomed heroes, cursed lovers, gothic manors, crossed identities, unholy seductions, shapeshifters, demon princes, possession, sorcery, and madness was fantasy as much in...

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Classic Covers: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jun27

Classic Covers: Edgar Rice Burroughs

From the pulps of the 20s and 30s to the paperback racks of the 60s and 70s to the comics and films and ebooks of the digital age and beyond, the publishing phenomenon that is Edgar Rice Burroughs encompasses millions of books sold, popular reading tastes changed, and classic tropes established. From John Carter to Tarzan, from Mars to Venus to the Earth’s Core to the Land that Time Forgot — with occasional forays into the...

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Classic Covers: Fred Saberhagen
May16

Classic Covers: Fred Saberhagen

Prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy series, Fred Saberhagen is best known for his Berserker series of far-future space operas in which a beleaguered mankind squares off against a malign machine intelligence, and the Swords series, detailing a massive conflict involving numerous key players and their unique swords of power. Often combining magic, post-apocalyptic, and military themes in his fiction, Saberhagen’s steady...

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Classic Covers: Jack Williamson
May02

Classic Covers: Jack Williamson

Few writers can boast as long and as productive a career as SF Grand Master Jack Williamson — this ‘Dean of Science Fiction’ produced scores of short stories and dozens of novels across multiple genres and series during a lifetime that saw him publish work in over eight consecutive decades. Getting his start in the era of the pulps and publishing right through until the first decade of the twenty-first century,...

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Classic Covers: More From Jack Vance
Apr18

Classic Covers: More From Jack Vance

We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. With hundreds of titles in dozens of editions in as many different languages, a catalog of Jack Vance’s prolific output is a feast of diverse and changing visual styles over many years. With cover illustrations as varied as Frazetta-style sword-and-sorcery, heady new age semiotics, surreal horror, literal Tolkien fantasy,...

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